NURSINGDiscusses nursing considerations when providing care to patients with insulin-dependent diabetes. Effects of diabetes on the kidneys; Assessment of a patient's renal function on the basis of blood urea nitrogen and creatinine tests; Nursing interventions that minimize or prevent renal damage. ...
Early recognition of diabetic renal complication has a pivotal role in the management of diabetic patients for improvement of patient's prognosis. The detection of microalbuminuria is particularly important as a marker of early diabetic kidney disease, and is related with an elevated cardiovascular ...
DNA methylation markers for kidney function and progression of diabetic kidney disease Article Open access 15 May 2023 Introduction Chronic kidney disease (CKD) ranks as the tenth leading cause of death globally, accounting for approximately one million deaths each year1. CKD is a complex disease ...
Just offhand, finerenone doesn’t look like agreatdrug. Helpful, maybe. Chronic kidney disease can end up at ESRD (end stage renal disease), which requires thrice weekly hemodialysis if the patient wants to stay alive. (Yes, peritoneal dialysis is an alternative.) Preventing ESRD is an inc...
emerging cardiometabolic indices—the atherogenic index of plasma (AIP), the stress hyperglycemia ratio (SHR), the triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index, and the homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR)—and the incidence of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) in type 2 diabetes (T2D) ...
The new tool, KidneyIntelX, is intended to identify patients with type 2 diabetes who are at high risk for progressive diabetic kidney disease in order that they can receive more aggressive renal-protective treatment. It is anticipated that the test would be of most use to primary care physici...
There is a global epidemic of type 2 diabetes. The increasing prevalence of young-onset diabetes has contributed to the increasing burden of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) due to the associated long disease duration1,2. Given the preventable nature of diabetic kidney disease (DKD), there is ...
Bayer’s blockbuster ambitions for diabetic kidney disease (DKD) drug candidate finerenone look a lot firmer with the publication of data from the phase 3 FIDELIO-DKD trial. Bayer teased the top-line result from the study back in July, providing the firs
Jul 28, 2021|Diabetes,Kidney Disorder What is Diabetic Nephropathy Diabetic nephropathy, a kidney-related disorder prevalent in individuals with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, affects the kidneys’ vital filtering function, leading to the impaired removal of waste products and excess fluids from the.....
The number of organ donors is low all over the world, and the number of diabetic patients becomes higher each day. Can a son of a diabetic patient be a kidney donor to his father, knowing that the son is at risk (genetic) for diabetes mellitus and, after that, nephropathy?